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> Whether a given platform has a 'standard PC' or some custom driver 
> then depends on that driver's init sequence - it's not a central 
> thing.

How exactly do you propose to handle boot memory allocation (eg EBDA)
with a driver ? Perhaps you can explain "driverize" as it isn't in any
dictionary and I'm not at all clear what you are on about ?